Spatial and reversal learning in congeneric lizards with different foraging strategies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 393-407

  Day, Lainy Baird ^a   Crews, David ^a   Wilczynski, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING;

ACANTHODACTYLUS BOSKIANUS; ACANTHODACTYLUS SCUTELLATUS;

EID: 0033083122     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1007     Document Type: Article

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